A delegation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held a meeting with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, in the midst of a context full of anti-government protests. Delegations of the organization asserted that the mission is “to have the broadest possible listening to all the voices” of civil society, through an agenda “focused on moving outside of Lima.”
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) met on January 11 with the President of Peru, Dina Boluarte. The instance came to that country with the aim of observing the situation of the anti-government protests that have been going on since December and in which 47 people have died.
The meeting was held at the Government Palace, in the historic center of Lima. The IACHR hoped to obtain information from the government about the disturbances.
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The delegation sent to the Andean country is led by the vice president of the IACHR and rapporteur for Peru, the Guatemalan Stuardo Ralón. After the meeting, in which Commissioner Joel Hernández also participated, Ralón declared that the idea of the mission is “to have the widest possible listening to all the voices” of civil society, through an agenda “focused on moving outside from Lima”.
The official informed that the delegation plans to meet with several congressmen in the capital and travel to the regions of Ica and Arequipa.
Another group from the delegation, made up of the special rapporteur for freedom of expression, Pedro Vaca, traveled to the Ica region, south of Lima, to meet “with victims and relatives and with social organizations.”
The visit of this autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS) to Peru begins two days after the country experienced the bloodiest day since the protests began last December, after Boluarte assumed the presidency by constitutional succession of the country, after the failed self-coup by his predecessor, Pedro Castillo, who is serving pretrial detention while being investigated for rebellion, reported EFE.
The president @DinaErcilia Boluarte held a working meeting with commissioners of the @IACHRwho are on an observation visit to Peru, at the invitation of the Peruvian Government. pic.twitter.com/KF8Oa1bnty
– Presidency of Peru ?? (@presidenciaperu) January 11, 2023
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